The First Steps of Adaptation of Escherichia coli to the Gut Are Dominated by Soft Sweeps

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Barroso Batista, João ^a   Sousa, Ana ^a   Lourenço, Marta ^a   Bergman, Marie Louise ^a   Sobral, Daniel ^a   Demengeot, Jocelyne ^a   Xavier, Karina B ^a,b   Gordo, Isabel ^a  

^a Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ECOSYSTEM; EPISTASIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; TRANSPOSON; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; STOMACH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; STOMACH;

EID: 84897389131     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004182     Document Type: Article

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